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2016 Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, LLC. All Rights ReservedWarner Bros. Pushing More Netflix Subscribers to Piracy Limiting the ways customers can enjoy your product will never build a greater profit. It&#39;s absurd how many major corporations still don&#39;t heed this advice -- particularly movie studios. After decades of price-gouging and restrictions the record industry had this lesson browbeaten into them until it finally allowed access to its catalogs to a wide variety of online streaming outlets. End result: We have a multitude of different ways to enjoy and discover music: iTunes (AAPL) Pandora (P) Amazon (AMZN) Google Music (GOOG) Spotify Grooveshark Turntable.fm etc. But apparently studios like Warner Bros. (TWX) fail to see that angering ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/01/27/warner-bros-pushing-more-netflix/
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:10:00 ESTNetflix-Offshoot Qwikster Already Has a ProblemOnce CEO Reed Hastings announced Netflix's plans to spin off DVD rentals to a separate company and website customers began mentally preparing for their movie viewing options. &quot;Stick with streaming? Add a second service? Ditch everything altogether and become familiar with BitTorrent?&quot;But as its customers were thinking ahead it appears that Netflix wasn't doing so at all.Online companies must depend on social media for announcements deals and customer service -- arguably more so than brick-and-mortar retailers. Twitter is logically the first choice for companies to connect with customers. Unfortunately for Qwikster somebody by that name already holds that distinction.And his ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/09/19/netflix-offshoot-qwikster-already-has/
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:47:00 ESTNetflix Apologizes, Sends DVDs Off to DieFor many physical media is dead. The days of delicately handling discs cassettes albums and reels are long over. What can't already be streamed from YouTube Spotify or Hulu can be quickly downloaded from a variety of sources -- both legitimate and &quot;less than&quot; legitimate -- and circulated with ease. I don't recall the last time I held an actual CD in my hand let alone stuck one in a drive and hit &quot;Play.&quot; And while I still occasionally grab a Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD off the shelf to view on a set not connected to a hard drive ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/09/19/netflix-apologizes-sends-dvds-off/
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:44:00 ESTNetflix Denies Shooting Itself in the FootAfter imposing new pricing plans which boosted many customers' monthly charges by 60% Netflix can't afford to pull another PR gaffe so soon.While customers were already dealing with their anger over Netflix's decision to split unlimited streaming and unlimited DVD rentals into two different plans digital consumer advocacy blog Stop the Cap! reported that the online rental house had put the hammer down on simultaneous streams.&quot;Netflix streaming customers who happen to share their account with other family members are having a frustrated Labor Day weekend as Netflix completes implementation of strict new limits on the number of concurrent video streams ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/09/07/netflix-denies-shooting-itself-in/
Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:22:00 ESTBlockbuster Grovels at the Feet of Ex-CustomersDespite Netflix's price hike Hulu's sluggish catalog expansion and the growing number of tiered data plans preventing unlimited mobile streaming it's unlikely Blockbuster is due for a comeback. Following one failed Hail Mary play after another -- from SD-enabled kiosks to introducing &quot;restocking fees&quot; -- Blockbuster was woefully behind the video rental curve and got crushed by Netflix Redbox Hulu and iTunes. But after being saved by a last-minute post-backruptcy acquisition by Dish Network Blockbuster must try to win back the customers it steadily lost. How? Well trying to pitch the same thing that led them here in the first ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/08/02/blockbuster-grovels-at-the-feet/
Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:50:00 ESTNetflix Tanks at the Worst TimeHow's this for bad timing?Last week Netflix customers grabbed their torches and pitchforks after the online rental house announced it would be raising subscription fees. No longer would unlimited video streaming and unlimited DVD rentals be included in one package for a mere $9.99 per month. Instead the offers would be split into two each for $7.99 a month starting September 1.And as customers contemplated which option to choose -- or cancel their membership altogether and make their acquaintance with a local Redbox kiosk -- Netflix may have helped irate customers make their decision Sunday night.Right around when Netflix On ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/07/18/netflix-tanks-at-the-worst/
Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:45:00 ESTBest Reactions to Netflix's Price HikeFor a while now BitTorrent claims a commanding share of all web traffic -- dwarfing the likes of Hulu and Netflix. But after yesterday's announcement it looks like Netflix may give BitTorrent a little extra traffic.The popular online rental house announced a new pricing structure that will begin September 1 of this year. Under these new payment options customers will no longer be able to stream unlimited video and rent unlimited DVDs one at a time for the current $9.99 a month. Instead those options are separated into two different plans: unlimited streaming for $7.99 per month and unlimited DVDs ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2011/07/13/best-reactions-to-netflixs-price/
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:07:00 ESTWhat Retailers Can Learn From Online Shopping StrategiesThe Internet has struck again and this time it&rsquo;s retail stores feeling its wrath.The Green Bay Gazette reports that online retailers like Amazon are causing traditional stores to languish forcing them to rethink how they do business. Best Buy for example posted a 5% drop in revenue that the company attributed to increased competition from Internet retailers like Amazon Target Costco and Walmart.The GBG reports:&ldquo;Blockbuster Circuit City Linens 'n Things Borders and other specialty megastores expanded rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s often putting small independent retailers out of business.Now some specialty megastores have gone out of business and others ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/what-retailers-can-learn-from/
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:22:00 ESTWatch: Blockbuster Training, Circa 1990YouTube could be comprised solely of employee training videos and I don't think I'd be disappointed. The Wendy's the Chuck E. Cheeses the Pizza Huts. Seems like everyone's job in high school was accompanied by a bevy of bumbling actors -- or better yet the CEOs -- stressing the importance of great customer service. I myself worked as a Customer Service Representative at Blockbuster Video from March 1997 through January 1998. I never had to sit through a training video -- but it will be my biggest regret not having been shown the following clips.Because it prevented me from what ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/watch-blockbuster-training-circa-1990/
Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:14:00 ESTInfographic: How Netflix Beat BlockbusterIf the rise and fall of Blockbuster has taught us one thing it's &quot;evolve or fall by the wayside.&quot; Also blind greed may get you to the top but it'll never sustain great heights.In September Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Since then it's been revealed that it may not be able to meet all of the financial obligations under the filing. Big surprise.For years the doomed rental house flailed from one poorly planned initiative to another -- all in the hopes of catching the runaway train that is Netflix. It briefly ditched late fees only to reintroduce them ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/infographic-how-netflix-beat-blockbuster/
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